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JANUARY 2019 | VOL. 58 NO. 1
INSTRUMENTATION SPECIAL REPORT
HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL PAM4, PCIE, jitter limits moving the needle
by Mike Hockett, Editor-in-Chief APPLICATIONS
SPECIAL REPORT VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS
Frequency requirements, lower costs driving VNA trends by Mike Hockett, Editor-in-Chief
TEST ISSUES & TECHNIQUES INSPECTION
Internal component features in acoustic 3D by Tom Adams
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Best practices for user-programmable FPGA instrumentation by Mike Dewey
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2019 5G Predictions by Mike Hockett, Editor-in-Chief
TECH INSIGHTS
NANOTECHNOLOGY Big things happen with tiny technology By Ken Cormier, Managing Editor
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